What kind of honest legal arrangement could make a guy without a fortune to become the owner of big state owned enterprises like oil? Outside Mexico, Russians suffered the worst looting of public property in recent memory. Thankfully, at least their statesmen made something about their previous stupidity and they don't have a fucking crime war destroying the country.
They are already doing this, but the bulk of their money comes from the drug trade. But, being true to the values of Ayn Rand, our mafia bosses go after any business opportunity and they traffic not only with drugs, guns and people, they trade also many medicines in the northern border that for some stupid reason are heavily controlled in the USA. It appears that the point of the DEA is to make the drug problem as worst as possible.
The man is the most absolute fucking stupid ruler this country had since Antonio López de Santa Anna. I'm at a loss of words to say how much I despise him. He sent the army against the cartels without doing even a small amount of intelligence work. He put on charge of mexican intelligence, CISEN, a guy that his previous work was being pundit in a newspaper and making propaganda for his presidential bid.
The two guys responsible of security in the previous government that allowed to become the cartels to grow so strong instead of being fired Calderón raised them to more important jobs. The boss of federal police has enriched himself far more of what his wages could allow and are growing press reports that he have strong ties with Sinaloa's Cartel but, the same claim has been consistently made against Calderón and his party, is a running joke that the leader of Sinaloa's Cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is "The Chapo del sexenio" (presidential period) because the governments from mexican conservatives have been extremely favorable to him making him the stronger mafia boss in the country and letting him scape from prison in 2000.
The growth in strength of organized crime comes mostly from the fact that the mexican economy have not grown significantly in more than a decade, and the current government has made almost impossible to have a small business since they have imposed many new taxes with so many rules that is far easier to go to the underground economy than trying to work by the books. Big corporations pay around 3% of their income in taxes at best, but small business, professional workers have to pay at least a third of their income in taxes and more than half of our country's population live bellow the poverty line. The peso have value only because the crime economy is injecting billions of dollars in the rest of mexican economy. Without drug dollars, the peso would sink to at least the 60% of his current value, and USA would see an stampede of mexicans trying to get a job in USA.
The war is done on behalf of the USA already, "our" president is just a puppet of Washington that in reality didn't even won the primaries in his own party, he needed 2 electoral frauds to reach is current post. The guy is so unable to stir passions that despite being a catholic extremist he only have 2 or 3 children.
I'm amazed how little are you guys worried for the lives of us mexicans. We want to deal with the bad guys far more than you, but we don't want our cities leveled by the USAF, please keep your armed forces in your side of the border, thank you.
Normal routes aren't working as usual because the ongoing war among cartels and the government as managed to kill mostly the drug lords that weren't sociopaths. What is missing in the picture is the huge jump in petty crimes in general around Mexico, so the drug cartels have diversified their business and now they are engaged on people traffic, protection, kidnappings, stolen cars and anything illegal, and money laundering has been made easier since in late 2005 to please big media consortiums and get their support for his presidential bid the then minister of interior legalized gambling at large scale.
do something that really would stop the flow of drugs and money, unless you guys are so naive to believe that the great majority of the members of the border patrol and border police forces are not part of the drug and people trade.
I think that we can concede that for practical purposes they are APC. You are thinking that the drug lords want to take over USA, but they are businessmen that not want to kill customers, they only want to remove some barriers to the free trade of drugs.
That said, the leadership of Zetas cartel were members of mexican special forces trained in Fort Benning, particularly good in urban warfare, that is what is going in this moment, despite all the claims to the contrary by the stupid puppet that we mexicans have for president. I find the power of this things more in the logic of psychological warfare than for massive use in battles, since armoring business are popping everywhere like mushrooms, because not only gang members but the rich and people that appear to be rich demand them because kidnappings are happening everywhere too, so an armored Hummer is such a common sight that can only now raise very few eyebrows. But with these monster trucks, gangs will get easily the submission of the poorly armed police forces of small towns that are only used to intervene in bar fights and hold a better control of territory.
Since both logos are just a mix of the common Apple's logos for sync and wireless, is hard to see a rip off. Being extremely close minded you can say that the developer, Greg Hughes, ripped off Apple's logos.
Well, we had a president that managed to stand against american pressure, President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, greatest mexican president of XX century, but he had in his favor that americans were too worried with the germans and japanese armies to divert resources against a country that already proven to be an Allie against fascist powers. That said, since most of our politicians are "educated" in USA, and our elite have the syndrome of stupid surrending monkey Moctezuma/collaborationist Malinche our country appears to foreigners to be begging to be conquered.
Of course I do vote against the assholes that currently rule the country and campaign actively against them even if that means risking my job, I had made substantial donations to several grass roots organizations that want true democracy in this country. I was scared for a while after the Army almost killed my grandmother in her house in the course of an illegal house search supposedly looking for kidnaped people but after being scolded by the fine lady -a true member of The Great Generation-, that in her youth fought against murderous catholic extremists in the Cristero's war, I'm again at it.
Certainly, I understand that you americans dislike illegal immigrants since they push down wages and many of them are uneducated and unwilling to melt in american society; even more, I can't stand the mexican morons that in USA claim that they are in their "own land" when the USA's army beat the crap out of us in 1848, mostly thanks to our lack of vision and unity than for USA's better army and far better commanders. If our defeat had not been so crushing we could have negotiated better terms, but we have to deal with reality, something that most of my fellow countrymen refuse to do.
You said that your politicians work for corporations. In our case, the previous president say that his government was instead of "government of the people, by the people, for the people" a "government of the entrepreneurs, by the entrepreneurs, for the entrepreneurs" entrepreneurs being, of course, synonym with corporation.
I'm pessimist since the relief valve of immigration to USA was closed, but replaced with the relief valve of drug economy so a revolution is highly improbable, the country is going down, so it appears that the destiny of Mexico for my lifetime is to serve as a warning to the people of the rest of the world what happens when citizens let crony capitalism run rampant.
The point that is lost is that anyway is better to have cleaner, better, more efficient means of transport and production than less efficient technology in pure economic, self interest terms.
Most places have valuable resources or at least are valuable markets. But, when the local elite in poor nations is more worried in being in good terms with powerful western countries than taking care of their own countries is obvious that things will go wrong. For example, here in Mexico, most, if not all of "our" government policies are made in Washington, this is the main reason for the current mexican war on drugs; the lack of proper investment in the public energy sectors to force a privatization of public goods for peanuts; the collapse of our railways and the severe restrictions on abortions to please conservatives in Mexico and USA. So, since the needs of citizens are not meet by the state or by the economic system, people run away from this hell and this is what makes USA's illegal immigration problem. The same pattern applies for most of Latin America, Africa and Middle East.
Individualism is good to a point, but is stupid to think that we can enjoy the benefits or living in a modern society without thinking in community/nation terms. If that were easy, the disparity in development between modern nation states and tribal societies would be far, far smaller than what it is in reality.
That's is main interest. I no doubt that some of his opinions and submissions are done in good faith, but he stands to win in his business if people for fear does the investment in solar equipment.
For the US's south and southeast makes a lot of sense to invest in solar termal power, but is not something that can be used everywhere, and this is not taking into account the fact that most people around the world are still consuming far less energy than western Europe or USA. When that people manages to improve their standard of living they will need far more energy; even with increased efficiency, the huge numbers will make the demand to increase sharply.
To be honest, this was more a problem with the bean counters that didn't had the foresight to protect an highly profitable power station with relatively inexpensive tsunami countermeasures. Even most doors were designed to keep off unauthorized personnel from some areas, but they were not bullet proof or reinforced. Even without tsunami countermeasures, if the large equipment door at unit 4 had been a bit more stronger the flood inside the power station could have been smaller enough to have spared from damage the emergency generators of units 1 and 2. The bulk of the water that got inside the turbine an reactors buildings was from the ripped off large equipment door, you can see that from the pictures taken from the sea side of the NPS complex.
Improvement plan for the exact nuclide analysis at the site of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station under instruction of NISA (Continued report 4)
The most surprising thing is that they found traces of Te-129 with an half life of 70 minutes in some samples from sea water not in the immediate vicinity of the NPS.
If they had same this wouldn't have necessary since by their own volition they would have committed sepukko. Their short sightedness is astounding, instead of spending a few million dollars protecting a highly profitable power plant they risked everything and lost all.
Since tourism to Japan has dropped around 62% and tourism around Fukushima prefecture is for all practical matters non existent even if most dangerously contaminated area goes around a polygon of 10 x 50 km,500 km of 377.835 km of Japan's surface, it does make sense that they downplayed the risk in the weeks after disaster. Personally, I believe that the most intelligent course of action would have been to speak about the worst case scenario in the following week after the earthquake when tourism was dead anyway and then from that point scaling back the projections with the available data. But TEPCO painted itself in a corner since from their early press releases they were stating that they had external power available for all the units, and the first nuclear emergency was declared in Fukushima Daini that was far less damaged by the tsunami than Fukushima Daiichi.
Now, certainly this was a case of a token regulation instead of a proper, strong independent regulatory body; but sadly this is the case in most countries and most industries since savage capitalism rules.
Geothermal releases a fair amount of CO2 and another contaminants with varying values depending of the quality of the steam coming from the wells. Some of that CO2 get processed and sold for industrial uses, but you can't process it at 100%.
Including Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Colombia, yes. That was a freudian slip Rumsfeld's style, it was supposed to be made public only if the world survives after year 2012.
With the "Arab Spring" we see now that much of the preparation & planning in most of the countries where uprisings occurred/are occurring was/is being, at least initially, organized and funded by Code Pink, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and other Liberal/Progressive, Socialist/Communist activist organizations who oppose Israel and wish for worldwide chaos as an opportunity for them to gain power and overthrow Western Capitalism.
What about the Elders of Sion, Illuminati and the reptile men from Venus?
Also, the fact that the libyan rebels are killing left and right black people just for the crime of being black has planted the seed for a long lasting conflict not only among libyans but between the libyans and their neighbors that are not that happy with the establishment of a new apartheid regime in North Africa.
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What kind of honest legal arrangement could make a guy without a fortune to become the owner of big state owned enterprises like oil? Outside Mexico, Russians suffered the worst looting of public property in recent memory. Thankfully, at least their statesmen made something about their previous stupidity and they don't have a fucking crime war destroying the country.
They are already doing this, but the bulk of their money comes from the drug trade. But, being true to the values of Ayn Rand, our mafia bosses go after any business opportunity and they traffic not only with drugs, guns and people, they trade also many medicines in the northern border that for some stupid reason are heavily controlled in the USA. It appears that the point of the DEA is to make the drug problem as worst as possible.
You are terribly uninformed.
The man is the most absolute fucking stupid ruler this country had since Antonio López de Santa Anna. I'm at a loss of words to say how much I despise him. He sent the army against the cartels without doing even a small amount of intelligence work. He put on charge of mexican intelligence, CISEN, a guy that his previous work was being pundit in a newspaper and making propaganda for his presidential bid.
The two guys responsible of security in the previous government that allowed to become the cartels to grow so strong instead of being fired Calderón raised them to more important jobs. The boss of federal police has enriched himself far more of what his wages could allow and are growing press reports that he have strong ties with Sinaloa's Cartel but, the same claim has been consistently made against Calderón and his party, is a running joke that the leader of Sinaloa's Cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is "The Chapo del sexenio" (presidential period) because the governments from mexican conservatives have been extremely favorable to him making him the stronger mafia boss in the country and letting him scape from prison in 2000.
The growth in strength of organized crime comes mostly from the fact that the mexican economy have not grown significantly in more than a decade, and the current government has made almost impossible to have a small business since they have imposed many new taxes with so many rules that is far easier to go to the underground economy than trying to work by the books. Big corporations pay around 3% of their income in taxes at best, but small business, professional workers have to pay at least a third of their income in taxes and more than half of our country's population live bellow the poverty line. The peso have value only because the crime economy is injecting billions of dollars in the rest of mexican economy. Without drug dollars, the peso would sink to at least the 60% of his current value, and USA would see an stampede of mexicans trying to get a job in USA.
The war is done on behalf of the USA already, "our" president is just a puppet of Washington that in reality didn't even won the primaries in his own party, he needed 2 electoral frauds to reach is current post. The guy is so unable to stir passions that despite being a catholic extremist he only have 2 or 3 children.
I'm amazed how little are you guys worried for the lives of us mexicans. We want to deal with the bad guys far more than you, but we don't want our cities leveled by the USAF, please keep your armed forces in your side of the border, thank you.
And BTW, I am glad we are not as fucked up as any arab country: you actually pay for our oil....
still :(
Normal routes aren't working as usual because the ongoing war among cartels and the government as managed to kill mostly the drug lords that weren't sociopaths. What is missing in the picture is the huge jump in petty crimes in general around Mexico, so the drug cartels have diversified their business and now they are engaged on people traffic, protection, kidnappings, stolen cars and anything illegal, and money laundering has been made easier since in late 2005 to please big media consortiums and get their support for his presidential bid the then minister of interior legalized gambling at large scale.
Another failed for overheating, but since the rainy season is starting they will not have that problem for the next months.
do something that really would stop the flow of drugs and money, unless you guys are so naive to believe that the great majority of the members of the border patrol and border police forces are not part of the drug and people trade.
I think that we can concede that for practical purposes they are APC. You are thinking that the drug lords want to take over USA, but they are businessmen that not want to kill customers, they only want to remove some barriers to the free trade of drugs.
That said, the leadership of Zetas cartel were members of mexican special forces trained in Fort Benning, particularly good in urban warfare, that is what is going in this moment, despite all the claims to the contrary by the stupid puppet that we mexicans have for president. I find the power of this things more in the logic of psychological warfare than for massive use in battles, since armoring business are popping everywhere like mushrooms, because not only gang members but the rich and people that appear to be rich demand them because kidnappings are happening everywhere too, so an armored Hummer is such a common sight that can only now raise very few eyebrows. But with these monster trucks, gangs will get easily the submission of the poorly armed police forces of small towns that are only used to intervene in bar fights and hold a better control of territory.
As a mexican, I can only say that you spoke the absolute truth. These idiots have made mexican = drug cartel member which is far away from reality.
Is a shock puppet from conmodore64, you can safely ignore most of his posts.
Since both logos are just a mix of the common Apple's logos for sync and wireless, is hard to see a rip off. Being extremely close minded you can say that the developer, Greg Hughes, ripped off Apple's logos.
Well, we had a president that managed to stand against american pressure, President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, greatest mexican president of XX century, but he had in his favor that americans were too worried with the germans and japanese armies to divert resources against a country that already proven to be an Allie against fascist powers. That said, since most of our politicians are "educated" in USA, and our elite have the syndrome of stupid surrending monkey Moctezuma/collaborationist Malinche our country appears to foreigners to be begging to be conquered.
Of course I do vote against the assholes that currently rule the country and campaign actively against them even if that means risking my job, I had made substantial donations to several grass roots organizations that want true democracy in this country. I was scared for a while after the Army almost killed my grandmother in her house in the course of an illegal house search supposedly looking for kidnaped people but after being scolded by the fine lady -a true member of The Great Generation-, that in her youth fought against murderous catholic extremists in the Cristero's war, I'm again at it.
Certainly, I understand that you americans dislike illegal immigrants since they push down wages and many of them are uneducated and unwilling to melt in american society; even more, I can't stand the mexican morons that in USA claim that they are in their "own land" when the USA's army beat the crap out of us in 1848, mostly thanks to our lack of vision and unity than for USA's better army and far better commanders. If our defeat had not been so crushing we could have negotiated better terms, but we have to deal with reality, something that most of my fellow countrymen refuse to do.
You said that your politicians work for corporations. In our case, the previous president say that his government was instead of "government of the people, by the people, for the people" a "government of the entrepreneurs, by the entrepreneurs, for the entrepreneurs" entrepreneurs being, of course, synonym with corporation.
I'm pessimist since the relief valve of immigration to USA was closed, but replaced with the relief valve of drug economy so a revolution is highly improbable, the country is going down, so it appears that the destiny of Mexico for my lifetime is to serve as a warning to the people of the rest of the world what happens when citizens let crony capitalism run rampant.
The point that is lost is that anyway is better to have cleaner, better, more efficient means of transport and production than less efficient technology in pure economic, self interest terms.
Most places have valuable resources or at least are valuable markets. But, when the local elite in poor nations is more worried in being in good terms with powerful western countries than taking care of their own countries is obvious that things will go wrong. For example, here in Mexico, most, if not all of "our" government policies are made in Washington, this is the main reason for the current mexican war on drugs; the lack of proper investment in the public energy sectors to force a privatization of public goods for peanuts; the collapse of our railways and the severe restrictions on abortions to please conservatives in Mexico and USA. So, since the needs of citizens are not meet by the state or by the economic system, people run away from this hell and this is what makes USA's illegal immigration problem. The same pattern applies for most of Latin America, Africa and Middle East.
Individualism is good to a point, but is stupid to think that we can enjoy the benefits or living in a modern society without thinking in community/nation terms. If that were easy, the disparity in development between modern nation states and tribal societies would be far, far smaller than what it is in reality.
That's is main interest. I no doubt that some of his opinions and submissions are done in good faith, but he stands to win in his business if people for fear does the investment in solar equipment.
For the US's south and southeast makes a lot of sense to invest in solar termal power, but is not something that can be used everywhere, and this is not taking into account the fact that most people around the world are still consuming far less energy than western Europe or USA. When that people manages to improve their standard of living they will need far more energy; even with increased efficiency, the huge numbers will make the demand to increase sharply.
To be honest, this was more a problem with the bean counters that didn't had the foresight to protect an highly profitable power station with relatively inexpensive tsunami countermeasures. Even most doors were designed to keep off unauthorized personnel from some areas, but they were not bullet proof or reinforced. Even without tsunami countermeasures, if the large equipment door at unit 4 had been a bit more stronger the flood inside the power station could have been smaller enough to have spared from damage the emergency generators of units 1 and 2. The bulk of the water that got inside the turbine an reactors buildings was from the ripped off large equipment door, you can see that from the pictures taken from the sea side of the NPS complex.
It is in the attachment from this press release from TEPCO:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11060707-e.html
Improvement plan for the exact nuclide analysis at the site of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station under instruction of NISA (Continued report 4)
The most surprising thing is that they found traces of Te-129 with an half life of 70 minutes in some samples from sea water not in the immediate vicinity of the NPS.
If they had same this wouldn't have necessary since by their own volition they would have committed sepukko. Their short sightedness is astounding, instead of spending a few million dollars protecting a highly profitable power plant they risked everything and lost all.
Since tourism to Japan has dropped around 62% and tourism around Fukushima prefecture is for all practical matters non existent even if most dangerously contaminated area goes around a polygon of 10 x 50 km,500 km of 377.835 km of Japan's surface, it does make sense that they downplayed the risk in the weeks after disaster. Personally, I believe that the most intelligent course of action would have been to speak about the worst case scenario in the following week after the earthquake when tourism was dead anyway and then from that point scaling back the projections with the available data. But TEPCO painted itself in a corner since from their early press releases they were stating that they had external power available for all the units, and the first nuclear emergency was declared in Fukushima Daini that was far less damaged by the tsunami than Fukushima Daiichi.
Now, certainly this was a case of a token regulation instead of a proper, strong independent regulatory body; but sadly this is the case in most countries and most industries since savage capitalism rules.
Geothermal releases a fair amount of CO2 and another contaminants with varying values depending of the quality of the steam coming from the wells. Some of that CO2 get processed and sold for industrial uses, but you can't process it at 100%.
Including Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Colombia, yes. That was a freudian slip Rumsfeld's style, it was supposed to be made public only if the world survives after year 2012.
(I'm half joking, ok?)
With the "Arab Spring" we see now that much of the preparation & planning in most of the countries where uprisings occurred/are occurring was/is being, at least initially, organized and funded by Code Pink, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and other Liberal/Progressive, Socialist/Communist activist organizations who oppose Israel and wish for worldwide chaos as an opportunity for them to gain power and overthrow Western Capitalism.
What about the Elders of Sion, Illuminati and the reptile men from Venus?
Also, the fact that the libyan rebels are killing left and right black people just for the crime of being black has planted the seed for a long lasting conflict not only among libyans but between the libyans and their neighbors that are not that happy with the establishment of a new apartheid regime in North Africa.